Writing and productions from Gareth Stack

Qualitative Research Methodologies

Ongoing Conclusions

Post-postive paradigm seems to most neatly fit our emerging research goals and design

Continual reflexivity is important

Qualitative Research Dialog – e.g.: This wiki, is important

Grounded Research may be a good technique to use

Unlike qualitative interviews, our questionaire and interviews may benifit from tweaking for later groups & interviews, based on the feedback of our ongoing research

General Notes

Info from ‘Introducing Qualitative Research in Psychology…’

Difference between Qualitative Research, small q and big Q
Q = “open-ended inductive research methodologies…concerned with theory generation and the exploration of meanings”
q = “incorporation of non-numerical data collection techniques into hypothetico-deductive research designs” – e.g.: adding some open questions to a closed survey

q – doesn’t seek to understand how research participants construe meaning
have pre-defined hypothesis and categories